Discover a flying animal that dominates the primitive sky

Flying lizards, the first living creature to fly by itself, appeared more than 200 million years ago, and dominated the primitive sky until a giant meteorite fell to Earth more than 65 million. Last year eradicated dinosaurs and most other life forms on Earth.

A previously unknown giant flying lizard species, more commonly known with the name of the lizard fingerling , was discovered in Utah by scientists.

The newly discovered flying lizard has a wingspan of about 1.5 meters and has a total of 112 teeth.

Determined by the remains found in the northeastern part of the state, the newly discovered flying lizard has a wing span of about 1.5 meters and a total of 112 teeth, including four long-toothed canines. 10.1cm protruding near the nose.

According to media reports, the animal has a sagging lower jaw, indicating that their mouths have pockets like pelicans, perhaps to catch fish and small reptiles.

Ancient sand and water have preserved the fossils of flying lizards well, perhaps the most complete skeleton of the flying lizard ever found. Thus, researchers can now produce a detailed image of this animal.

Although the skeleton is still in the sandstone, the scientists created accurate 3D images and models of each fossil using CAT scanning technology .

The lizard head 3D printed model was found in Utah - (Photo from Brigham Young University).

The location of the fossil remains in the former area is an oasis in a two million km ² desert with huge sand dunes.

Brooks Britt, a paleontologist from Brigham Young University in Utah, said: "In droughts, many animals - including flying lizards, carnivorous dinosaurs and crocodylomorpha species - are collected. sucked into puddles in the middle of the oasis and died there when the water dried up.

In general, scientists have found more than 18,000 bones from dozens of animals dying of thirst.

The fact that these high flying creatures are distributed throughout the world may have helped them survive the extinction of the end of the Triassic period, which erased half of the species on the ground and underwater.